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Find out how your country plays a role in the illegal decimation of the
Patagonian toothfish.
What do we mean by pirate fishing vessels
anyway?
Also, check out our of known pirate fishing vessels in the Southern Ocean.
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Uruguay
- CCAMLR country
- Licensed fishing country - Vessels registered in Uruguay fish
in UK sub-Antarctic waters. In November 1999 announced further exploratory
fishing.
- Pirate home country - Vessels from Uruguay are also known to
operate illegally in the toothfish fishery.
- Pirate port - Montevideo in Uruguay has acted as a landing
and transshipping point by mostly Chilean pirates who were attracted
to the port by lenient fisheries authorities that accepted "high seas"
as the point of origin for the toothfish.
Contact the government of Uruguay.
Click on the map to find out how your region plays a role in the illegal decimation of the Patagonian Toothfish.
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